Increased ventilation of Antarctic deep water during the warm mid-Pliocene

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Zhongshi ^a,b,c   Nisancioglu, Kerim H ^a,b,d   Ninnemann, Ulysses S ^a,b,d  

^a Uni Research   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; DEEP WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; STRATIFICATION; VENTILATION; WARMING; WIND FIELD;

AIR CONDITIONING; ALTITUDE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; NORWAY; PLIOCENE; SEA; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84874585144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2521     Document Type: Article

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